The PyeongchangWinter Olympics, the first Games held in South Korea in 30 years, officially opened on Friday with fireworks, song and symbolism featured amid celebrations of light, peace, and harmony.

Canada's Max Parrot, the top qualifier, stomped his tricks in the final run of the contest, but it wasn't enough to unseat Gerard.

And at the end of the night, Team USA's Chris Mazdzer became the first American to ever medal in men's singles luge. He broke his jaw and left arm, suffered a ruptured spleen, rib fractures, a stable pelvic fracture and a collapsed left lung. We will continue to update the official medal count throughout these 2018 Winter Olympics. He thought, briefly, about taking the main jump, but said his spin - a double-cork 1080 - off the main hit would not impress the judges.

But it's even nicer for the man (boy, I guess?) who did it: 17-year-old Red Gerrard, a surprise victor of the men's snowboard slopestyle competition.

Compatriot Mark McMorris pushed Parrot all the way, qualifying with the second highest score from heat two.

According to The Denver Post, Gerard showed up in South Korea like "an accidental tourist", insisting that "I honestly don't know what the Olympics is".

Slopestyle was one of the events that did not fall victim to high winds yesterday, when the showpiece men's downhill skiing was aborted until Thursday.

Red Gerard, born on June 29, 2000, celebrated a storming win in slopestyle, which also made him the second youngest individual victor in Games history. As soon as the helicopter got there (90 minutes later) I went to sleep. Tyler Nicholson of North Bay, Ont., was seventh and Sebastien Toutant of L'Assomption, Que., was 11th.

A day of extremes started with a surprise natural disaster alert, after a 4.7-magnitude quake rattled eastern South Korea, with its epicentre about 260 kilometres (160 miles) from the Games. "I don't know, [Parrot] had a pretty good run, I was questioning it", said Gerard, who'll take on Parrot once again at the big air competition on February 20.

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Nobel prize victor Malala Yousafzai remarked: "Heartbroken that we lost Asma Jahangir - a saviour of democracy and human rights ". She co-chaired the South Asia Forum for Human Rights and was the vice president of International Federation for Human Rights .

As of October it had managed just USD1.0 billion in divestments, but achieved USD2.5 billion in the fourth quarter overall. Fourth-quarter oil and gas production rose 18 percent from a year earlier to 2.58 million barrels of oil equivalent a day.

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Abe echoed Pence's comments through a translator, urging countries "not to be lured by the charm offensive of North Korea ". U.S., but the North is not yet believed to have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on a ballistic missile.

Alabama also lost two commits to flips, as Quay Walker ended up choosing Georgia and Bobby Brown chose Texas A&M. We are happy with the guys that we got. "But overall, I think we solved a lot of needs in this class".

The first phase of Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to be opened later this year while the grand opening is planned for 2022. Other scenes also depict a monkey - in pharaonic times, monkeys were commonly kept as domestic animals - picking fruit.

Temperatures in the north will be 8C at their highest, with the south-west enjoying slightly higher temperatures of 12C. There is a risk of spot flooding early morning and the warning remains in place until midnight Saturday.

" A large shadow was cast tonight over the police investigations and their recommendations related to Prime Minister Netanyahu ". According to Israeli media, police are expected to recommend that he be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of public trust.

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